From mosaics to objects
After I have explored the capabilities of mosaic mode using my “beaches’ glasses”, I have decided to scale up getting the 3D, looking for differents ways with more capacities.
Working in 2D, as I’ve done since today, means constraints mainly in terms of subjects because is almost difficoult to render a perspective to who looks at the picture due to the particoular shape of the tiles, and poverty of colours: three with little different tones for each.
So that’s 3D in which why my will to find new ways, has been satisfied…for the moment.
A friend of mine has teached me the Tiffany technique, and she loaned me a lot of materials, with the input of my idea I’ve done my first thing: a Tiffany lamp (See Tiffany-saic).
Acquiring the 3rd dimension, this technique mortifies just a bit the essential nature of the glasses, infact the external part of the tile, go lost in the welding.
This lamp teached me how to approach, understand and keep the limits and the capabilities and manage the how-to … the result at the end has been acceptable, so here is the 2nd step.
I loved modelism in youth, as well the puzzles, the boat shows better than thousands words the synthesis of these two pastimes.
There are thousands of modelists creating million of models, interesting, perfects, nice even wonderful, but nothing else than the bare reproduction of a real thing. This is an interpretation of a boat, more precisely a GOZZO with VELA LATINA – LATEEN SAIL and FIOCCO-JIB, aged 1930-1950, not only a simple reduction in scale of a real boat, sailing upwind. The boat itself is not completely true, even if the scale 1:25 is fully respected, only the shape is just a bit refined in the bow, and in the cover.
The “gozzo” is a typical boat in the north mediterranean sea side: french and italian, well known as GOZZO LIGURE-LIGURIAN GOZZO, for sea worker coast to coast (I was born in Genova-Genoa, capitol of Liguria region, and i’ve seen and sailed on those boats since i was a child).
Fishing and goods’ carrier mostly and a for locomotion of local people instead horses and donkeys.

Finalmente ecco la storia di “Come crearsi complicazioni costruendo una semplice barca”
Finally here is the story of “How to get complications making a simple boat”.

For first collecting glasses on the beaches (ouch!), washing, dividing and storing them.
Then finding and/or buying some stuff we need during the process, for first copper.
I wanted copper cos I wasn’t sure of myself to make it without any support’s structure and, at the end, I always dreamed to make a boat with frames, hull, bridges, rigs, etc 🙂

La prima cosa da fare è l’ossatura base, iniziando dalla chiglia.

The first thing to do is to make the basic framework of the boat, beginning from the keel.

3d step, the most important in order to give the exact shape of the hull, the frames.
Adesso la forma e la struttura base sulla quale costruire la barca è fatta.

Now the shape and the basic structure on which build the boat has been done.

Completo questa fase con l’ossatura del ponte.

In order To Complete this phas, here is the deck’s frame.

Per l’albero ho limato una barra filettata di ottone saldata alla chiglia e al bordo del ponte. Ora l’ossatura di base è finita e posso iniziare col vetro.
For the mast I’ve smoothed down a brass’ threaded rod and then soldered the mast on the keel and on the edge of the deck. Now the basic frame is completed and I can start with the glasses.

Ed ora inizio ad utilizzare i vetri.
Deve essere scelto uno per uno, tra le migliaia a disposizione, secondo criteri precisi: colore, forma e dimensione, per conformarsi alla forma finale con il minimo spazio possibile tra uno e l’altro.
Now I start with to work with glasses.
I have to choose the right one between the thousands that i have, following well defined criterias: color, shape and dimension, in order to fit with the desired final result. The most is to have less space to be filled with lead between each tile.